Steven Millhauser Quotes

Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

Don't feel sorry for me.

But think of the last guy. For one minute, think of the last guy. Nobody's got it worse than that guy. Nobody in the whole world.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

My heart bled for the inhabitants.

I feel like if you're in a bad situation, and then you see somebody that's even in a worse situation, you feel for that person.

I've been through so much in my life. I really don't like the feeling sorry for me, the pity.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen.

I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction

I feel sorry for people in power. I feel sorry for the Queen, in a way, that she hasn't had a normal life. It'd difficult for me to hate anyone. Immediately someone's unpopular, I feel sorry for them.

Kind pity chokes my spleen.

Pity is cruel. Pity destroys.

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harassed tribe, we writers.

Because Jesus Christ suffered greatly, He understands our suffering. He understands our grief. We experience hard things so that we too may have increased compassion and understanding for others.

I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a bit. I mean really suffer, because you don't know what the word means yet. You only think you've suffered. You've got to fall in love first.

In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.

Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?